Court Upholds $156 Million Judgment Against Hamas Supporters

INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT - IPT News ^ | December 3, 2008 | n/a

[Cindy]

An appellate court has upheld a $156 million judgment against two organizations found to have provided financial support to Hamas and sent the claim against a third back to district court for a new trial. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling Wednesday that eliminated the distinction between supporting the violent and social wings of a terrorist group.

"If you give money to an organization that you know to be engaged in terrorism, the fact that you earmark it for the organization's nonterrorist activities does not get you off the liability hook," Judge Richard Posner wrote for the majority.

The ruling favors Joyce and Stanley Boim, whose son David was shot and killed by Hamas terrorists in 1996. It upholds the damages against the Quranic Literacy Institute, a Chicago-area non profit that was accused of laundering money for Hamas and the American Muslim Society, which the judges found "did know and in giving money to the (Holy Land) Foundation was deliberately funneling money to Hamas."

[DiogenesLaertius]

Posner bangs out another one.

[Cindy]

Yep.

[piasa]

* Ahmad Zaki Hammad : QLI's founding president, Ahmad Zaki Hammad, is a scholar of Islam boasting advanced degrees from Cairo's prestigious Al-Azhar University and the University of Chicago. He has served as president of the lobby's largest organization, the Islamic Society of North America, and sat on the board of the North American Islamic Trust, its mechanism for taking over mosques and other Islamic properties. ------U.S. court blows terrorists' cover, chokes off their funds Chicago Sun-Times ^ | December 15 2004 | Daniel Pipes

[piasa]

Barack Obama’s national Muslim outreach coordinator has resigned amid a controversy of over his connections to a man who the Justice Department named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the racketeering trial last year of several alleged Hamas fund-raisers.
Mazen Ashabi, a Chicago lawyer who had been appointed to help Obama reach out to Muslims, stepped down on Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported late last night.
The paper had inquired about his relationship with Jamal Said, who served on a board with Asbahi in 2000 that is a subsidiary of the North American Islamic Trust, which holds titles to mosques, Islamic centers, schools, and other real estate around the country. Said had been named in an investigation of alleged Hamas fund-raisers, which ended in a mistrial last year, the paper reported.
“I am stepping down from the volunteer role I recently agreed to take on with the Obama campaign as Arab-American and Muslim American coordinator in order to avoid distracting from Barack Obama’s message of change,” Ashabi wrote in a statement Obama’s campaign staff released last night.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...———Obama Muslim Coordinator Resigns
Washington Post ^ | August 6, 2008 | Perry Bacon
Posted on Wednesday, August 06, 2008 11:42:32 AM by yorkie

[Cindy]

Thank you piasa for updating this thread.